The IAAEU participated in the Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), held in Helsinki and Espoo, Finland, from 11 to 13 June 2026. The conference brought together researchers from around the world to present and discuss...
From June 3 to 4, Dr. Lieke Voorintholt attended the 2026 annual conference of the Society of Economics of the Household (SEHO) at the University of Pavia. She presented a joint paper with her with her co-author Dr. Annalisa Tassi (FBK-IRVAPP, Trento) on...
In a recent article, Lieke Voorintholt (IAAEU and Trier University), Adriaan Soetevent, and Gerard van den Berg (both at the University of Groningen) examine whether a common survey question to elicit climate change worries is affected by a subtle difference...
A major success for a former colleague: Dr. Marco Clemens , who served as a research associate at the IAAEU from 2021 to 2025, has been awarded the 2026 Joseph A. Schumpeter Prize for his dissertation, "Essays on Income, Wellbeing, and the Labour Market."...
Dr. Lieke Voorintholt joined the economic team of the IAAEU in March 2026. After completing her PhD in economics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, she moved to Trier to focus on her research at the intersection of labor and behavioral...
On May 11 and 12, 2026, Laszlo Goerke participated in the annual Public Finance Conference at the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim. He presented first results from a joint research project with Martin Besfamille,Pontificia...
What requirements do equal pay and pay transparency place on job evaluation under collective agreements? And what are the implications of the requirement set out in the Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970/EU that job evaluation systems must be designed in an...
In a recent article, Ulugbek Aminjonov , Olivier Bargain (Bordeaux School of Economics), and Maira Colacce (IECON Instituto de Economía) provide global evidence on intra-household inequalities in consumption, with new findings on gender gaps and child...
On April 21, Jaqueline Stein successfully defended her dissertation “Freedom of Association and Prison Labor – A Study in Labor and Constitutional Law on the Protection of Prisoner Unions under Article 9(3) of the German Basic Law (GG)”. In her work,...
Researchers from the IAAEU and the Chair of Personnel Economics participated in the Annual Meeting of the Scottish Economic Society, held in Glasgow from 13 to 15 April 2026. The conference brought together economists from various fields to present current...
